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Unsolved Homicide
by Antonio Rocco S. (Rocco Valentini)
No eyes return to the case file. No hands reach out for new evidence. What killed the American Dream? ONE-EIGHT-SEVEN Once red lights flashed Across tracks that carried us Toward new horizons. Now America’s future rolls away In foreign boxcars As politicians punch tickets Like train conductors Their rhetoric roaring like engines Shuttling our nation Down a steel track toward oblivion. ONE-EIGHT-SEVEN Once a single wage Built a home for many Now it hardly shelters one. A white picket fence On a suburban lawn Now only a curtain pulled tight In a studio apartment Where walls shrink And dreams downsize. ONE-EIGHT-SEVEN Who printed our obituary? Was our death certificate signed With the same ink the Fed uses to print money? ONE-EIGHT-SEVEN What killed the American Dream? Footnote: ONE-EIGHT-SEVEN is police code for homicide.